GREAT BRITAIN: For Services Rendered

Cash and kudos have been traditional
rewards of Britain's war leaders. Two months ago the Labor Government
violated the cash-grant tradition (TIME, Nov. 12). But this week, in
the longest New Year's Honors List in history (some 10,000 names), it
toed the line by handing them their traditional victors' laurels.

Among the new viscounts:

¶ Field Marshal Lord Alanbrooke, 62, the
dapper, decisive Ulsterman who was Britain's Chief of Staff through the
war's worst years. Current assignment: a 30,000-mile tour of British
trouble spots.